News from the plant

Honeywell lays off 2 workers in violation of bargaining agreement to save $14.00. Over 100 scabs still present at the plant, some making $62.00/hour!

Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:38pm

Friday was the last day for 2 USW Union Members at the plant.  Honeywell issued lay off notices to the two workers citing a "lack of work".  Managers approached the Union's Executive Board and notified them that they would lay off the workers, in clear violation of the latest collective bargaining agreement, which was ratified in August after a 14 month lockout.  Honeywell managers attempted to extort a contract violation from the Union by suggesting we accept another violation to our contract by lowering the pay of two other displaced workers by $7.00/hr.  When the Union refused to allow the violation, the company retaliated by laying off the two other workers.      

Message to Honeywell Management

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 5:48pm

Lately at the plant there has been a reoccurring theme, to intimidate our members, create conflict, and demoralize us into submission.  We would like to take this opportunity to let Honeywell management know: WE WILL NOT BE BULLIED!  Although you may have hit us, you may have knocked us down, you have not knocked us out!  We have been in fights before and our members are tough as STEEL.  You continue to violate our contract, and terminate our members to draw attention away from that fact, but this tactic will not work.  We were here before your tyrant regime took over, and we will be here when you are gone.

Union Member punished for missing work to rush child to Kosair Children's Hospital.

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 11:25pm

  Two weeks ago, a Member of our union and his wife celebrated the birth of their child.  Unfortunately, joy was quickly followed by fears when the baby was born with complications and was almost immediately rushed to Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville.  He was scheduled to work a night shift the following evening.  He called the company and asked to be placed on vacation in order to go to Kosairs with his wife and newborn son.

  The company's response, "No!"  Managers told him that they would not grant his vacation request without a 48 hour notice.  It started with his immediate supervisors, but went all the way up to Dean Palmer, Jim Prichard, and Larry Smith.  He was counted as absent on the first two days that he missed and received no pay.  It wasn't until the third day that he was placed on vacation.  

Some scabs making $62.00 an hour!!!

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 7:23am

"Containing costs is everyone's responsibility", "the facility has lost $100 million", blah, blah, blah.  We have all heard the company's rhetoric.  They sounded awfully convincing, but a quick look around the plant and it doesn't take long to realize that Larry lied, again.  Contractors are everywhere.  Instead of hiring one full-time employee, the company seems to think that paying three scabs to do one man's job is cheaper.  

Honeywell continues to fight Union. 4 Union members terminated.

Sun, 01/22/2012 - 9:50pm

The past is the past.....  We all heard Larry Smith's lies in re-entry orientation.  We know that this doesn't apply to Honeywell.  Maybe it was the $200 million that Honeywell spent, unsuccessfuly trying to buy the contract that they wanted.  Maybe it was the 14 months that they weren't able to make any production.

Re-entry.... What a ride...

Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:56pm

By now, it's pretty safe to say that we've had our taste of the "re-entry".  Larry Smith's train has left the station and no one really knows who's steering.  One thing is painfully obvious.... Larry lied.  Here is just a short list.

What they said:  "The past is the past.  We'll move forward together."

What they meant:  We want you to forget the past.  Forget all of our lies.  Forget what we did to your families.  BUT, we won't forget.  We will fire everyone that took a stand against us

What they meant:  "We've made improvements throughout the plant to help us meet our goals."

What they meant:  We fixed ONE THING the whole time you were out!  One ore dryer feed screw, that you told us for years needed to be fixed.  We finally fixed it.

What they said:  "We've made better production than ever."

What they meant:  We couldn't wait for the experienced work force to come back.  We were struggling to make 30% of our capacity.  Since re-entry, the UNION workforce has made ALL TIME RECORD production.

What they said:  "We've added new engineers and salary personnel to help meet our goals."

What they meant:  We now enough engineers to design a space shuttle, but only the combined intelligence to design the seat belts.

What they said:  "Shaw is the safest contractor in the nuclear industry."

What they meant:  These are the dumbest scabs that we could find.  Rejects from full-time, steady employment!  Many of them don't scab because they want to.  They do it because they are too stupid to get any other type of job.  Fast food would likely turn them away.

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